Improvement in car-registers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GSOHWIND AND CHARLES 4GSGHWIND, OF NEW'YORK. N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAR-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Lettcrs'Pateut No. 59,887, dated November6, 1866.

To all whom it may concer.

Be it known that we, Jox-.LN GSCHWIND and CHARLES scHwiNn, ofthe city,county, and State of New York, hnve invented a ner.- and ImprovedPnssenger- Register for Railroad Cars and other Publio Conveyances; andwe do hereby 'declare that the following is a'full, clear, and. exactdescription th ereoi', which will enable others skilled in the art tomake and use the. same, reference-being had to the ac- .indicating thenuinbero passengers carriedduring a trip'` therebyservig as a check; fordishonest conductors and employs.

The invention-consists in conferring' the in gress to one passage only,and having insaid passage an upright shaft provided with ,lateral arms,like a tnrnstile, so thats person in entering a. car or passing on aferry-bridge will necessarily turn the shaft, and in so doingcommunicate mot-ion,through the medium of snit-able gearing, dial, ashereinafter fully shown and described.

In the following description the invention refers to the application ofthe invention to a street-railroad car.

A represents 'one end of a railroad-car, B being the platform; and() isan upright shaft;

which muy 'be close to the end of the-body of` the cnr, and protected bya casing, D. The

npper 'end'o'f this sha-it 0 has four horizontal arm s, a., attached.to'it,..whieh.extend across the.

platform lB, just above the rail or guard E at its end,and near the stepa at oneside of. the platform, sothat a person in entering-the car worksorar a dial, ifi

to an index workin g over a will necessarily turn the shaft()onefqnarter of a revolution in' the direction indicated by..

arrow l.. j I

Theslmft C is prevented from 'turning in' the opposite direct-ion bymeans of aratchet,b,

on its lower einl,`intowh ieli Aa. pawl, c, catches. (See Fig. 2.) j .Atthe opposite side of the plot-forni B there ris a shaft, F, alsoprovided with, horizontal arms d, like the shaft C, and havinga.ratchet,

c.on its lower end, with a pelwhf` ca tchinginto lit, the teeth ot' theratchet being in areverse position to those of the ratchet b, in orderto admit oflthe arms d lnrni'ng oiitward, asi indicated 'by-*thenrrows2. to allow pssengers to pass ont, the"nrni rl not being allowed to turnin -theopposite' direction toadmit plassengers in at that sidel of;thepltform. i

The shuft C, connected underneath the body of the car by gearing'g witha shaft, h, which l extends upward within s seatof .one' sideof the car,and has en -index, i, upon it', which.

cords or indicates'- the t-u'rnsof the shaft C, and consequently thenumber ofpassengers that have entered the car.

'The arraugementls extremelyusimple sind ecicnt, aii c1' rxia'y beapplied ata moderate cosi-iti, and will operateperfectly.

ai' vclaim as newnnd. desireto secure by- Letters Patent The'combination and' arrangement of the shaft-C,- arms @,'fr'at'chjet b,pawl 1', gearing g,

:shaft h,.ind'ex' s', and' dial- 1" with the cari'A,

which isprofvidel-l with theegress-armed shaft Fon theV pposite.'siile,'as' and for the pnr' pose-specified.

.fJOHN GSOHWLND. DGSUBMHND. VVitneeses:V l l '.WM. F. MoNAMsRk,

This index and and m.

ing'thns described our. invention, we I

